Never trouble another with what you can do yourself.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.
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The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease
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No people can be both ignorant and free.
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I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.
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